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Detecting the Higgs Bosons of Minimal Supergravity with Muon Pairs
The prospects at the CERN LHC are investigated for the discovery via decays
into muon pairs of neutral Higgs bosons in the minimal supergravity model.
Promising results are found for the CP-odd pseudoscalar () and the heavier
CP-even scalar () Higgs bosons at large . For
\tan\beta \agt 10 and 100 GeV \alt m_A,m_H \alt 550 GeV, the and the
masses could be precisely reconstructed from the dimuon invariant mass.Comment: 12 pages, REVTEX, 4 figure
Higgs Boson Discovery Potential of LHC in the Channel
We discuss the SM Higgs discovery potential of LHC in the reaction when the jet is observed at sufficiently high to
be reliably identified. We conclude that this channel gives promising discovery
possibilities for the Higgs boson mass range 100-140 GeV, during LHC operation
at a low luminosity. With 30 fb of accumulated data and for
GeV about 100 signal events could be observed with the number of background
events larger by a factor of 2 only, showing a signal significance
. We use the difference of distributions in the partonic
subprocess energy for the signal and background for a better
separation of the signal.Comment: 15 pages including 6 figures, LaTeX, use epsfig.sty. To appear in
Phys.Lett.B. In this replacement minor LaTeX improvements are mad
Chiral restoration at finite temperature with meson loop corrections
We investigate chiral-restoration patterns of QCD for N_{c}=3 and N_{f}=2 at
finite temperature (T) and zero quark-chemical potential beyond the chiral
limit, indicating the explicit chiral-symmetry breaking. To this end, we employ
the instanton-vacuum configuration for the flavor SU(2) sector and the
Harrington-Shepard caloron for modifying relevant instanton parameters as
functions of T. The meson-loop corrections (MLC), which correspond to 1/N_{c}
corrections, are also taken into account to reproduce appropriate m_{q}
dependences of chiral order parameters. We compute chiral condensate as a
function of T and/or m_{q}. From the numerical calculations, we observe that
MLC play an important role to have a correct universality-class behavior of
chiral-restoration patterns in this framework, depending on m_{q}: Second-order
phase transition in the chiral limit, m_{q}=0 and crossover for m_{q}>0.
Without MLC, all the restoration patterns are crossover, due to simple
saddle-point approximations. It turns out that T^{\chi}_{c}=159 MeV in the
chiral limit and T^{\chi}_{c}=(177,186,196) MeV for m_{q}=(5,10,15) MeV, using
the phenomenological choices for the instanton parameters at T=0.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
Discovering the Higgs Bosons of Minimal Supersymmetry with Tau Leptons and a Bottom Quark
We investigate the prospects for the discovery at the CERN Large Hadron
Collider or at the Fermilab Tevatron of neutral Higgs bosons through the
channel where the Higgs are produced together with a single bottom quark and
the Higgs decays into a pair of tau leptons, . We work within the framework of the minimal
supersymmetric model. The dominant physics background from the production of
, (), ,
and is calculated with realistic acceptance cuts and efficiencies.
Promising results are found for the CP-odd pseudoscalar () and the heavier
CP-even scalar () Higgs bosons with masses up to one TeV.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figure
Astrophysical Constraints on Large Extra Dimensions
In the Kaluza-Klein (KK) scenario with n large extra dimensions where gravity
propagates in the 4+n dimensional bulk of spacetime while gauge and matter
fields are confined to a four dimensional subspace, the light graviton KK modes
can be produced in the Sun, red giants and supernovae. We study the energy-loss
rates through photon-photon annihilation, electron-positron annihilation,
gravi-Compton-Primakoff scattering, gravi-bremsstrahlung and nucleon-nucleon
bremsstrahlung, and derive lower limits to the string scale M_S. The most
stringent lower limit obtained from SN1987A leads to TeV
(2.1-9.2 TeV) for the case of two (three) large extra dimensions.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables; minor corrections, references adde
The Nucleon Spin Polarizability at Order ) in Chiral Perturbation Theory
We calculate the forward spin-dependent photon-nucleon Compton amplitude as a
function of photon energy at the next-to-leading () order in
chiral perturbation theory, from which we extract the contribution to nucleon
spin polarizability. The result shows a large correction to the leading order
contribution.Comment: 7 pages, latex, 2 figures included as .eps file
Phenomenology of a String-Inspired Supersymmetric Model with Inverted Scalar Mass Hierarchy
Supersymmetric (SUSY) models with heavy sfermions (
TeV) in the first two generations and the third generation sfermion masses
below 1 TeV can solve the SUSY flavor and the CP problems as well as satisfy
naturalness constraints. We study the phenomenology of a string-inspired
scenario and compare it with the minimal supergravity unified model (mSUGRA).
The SUSY trilepton signature at the upgraded Tevatron, the
branching fraction and the neutralino dark matter relic density in this model
can differ significantly from the mSUGRA model.Comment: Version to appear in Physics Letters
The Chern-Simons Coefficient in Supersymmetric Non-abelian Chern-Simons Higgs Theories
By taking into account the effect of the would be Chern-Simons term, we
calculate the quantum correction to the Chern-Simons coefficient in
supersymmetric Chern-Simons Higgs theories with matter fields in the
fundamental representation of SU(n). Because of supersymmetry, the corrections
in the symmetric and Higgs phases are identical. In particular, the correction
is vanishing for N=3 supersymmetric Chern-Simons Higgs theories. The result
should be quite general, and have important implication for the more
interesting case when the Higgs is in the adjoint representation.Comment: more references and explanation about rgularization dpendence are
included, 13 pages, 1 figure, latex with revte
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